Throughout history, poets and songwriters alike have used their writing as a means to express their emotions. Gary Snyder wrote Four Poems For Robin mourning over a past lover in 1968. Whereas Ed Sheeran wrote Lego House in 2011, many years later. Although there is a large gap of time between the two, it is evident that writers have not stopped writing about love, being an unavoidable topic still relevant to this day. Both pieces explore similar themes yet use different tones and devices. Though Four Poems For Robin focuses on the stages of getting over someone by using a gradation of time and Lego House employs a hopeful tone, both works contribute to portraying what it means to be emotionally invested in someone.
Four Poems For Robin was written for a woman named Robin, potentially Gary Snyder’s love interest while he was travelling through Japan. Each poem …show more content…
“Lego house” is a metaphor for a relationship. Sheeran is convincing the subject of his love to stay with him and build a future. Their relationship has fallen to pieces, yet he offers to “pick up the pieces and build a lego house”. The use of a metaphor involving lego, lightens the mood and makes it seem less serious than it is. Building a lego house sounds like much more fun than rebuilding a broken relationship. He is forgiving and willing to forget the past and saying what he will do better now. He is hopeful for their future to be much better than their past because he knows he messed up in the past. He feels he has grown deeper in love from all these things [he’s] done. He’s admitting to doing wrong, yet he’s still in love. I'm gonna paint you by numbers and colour you in. Yet again another metaphor to a childlike activity, showing he will take it step by step and making it seem simple. He may say that he is “out of love” however he is still trying really hard to win her back. Love is a very complex subject, yet Ed Sheeran uses metaphor to make it seem more
Four Poems For Robin was written for a woman named Robin, potentially Gary Snyder’s love interest while he was travelling through Japan. Each poem …show more content…
“Lego house” is a metaphor for a relationship. Sheeran is convincing the subject of his love to stay with him and build a future. Their relationship has fallen to pieces, yet he offers to “pick up the pieces and build a lego house”. The use of a metaphor involving lego, lightens the mood and makes it seem less serious than it is. Building a lego house sounds like much more fun than rebuilding a broken relationship. He is forgiving and willing to forget the past and saying what he will do better now. He is hopeful for their future to be much better than their past because he knows he messed up in the past. He feels he has grown deeper in love from all these things [he’s] done. He’s admitting to doing wrong, yet he’s still in love. I'm gonna paint you by numbers and colour you in. Yet again another metaphor to a childlike activity, showing he will take it step by step and making it seem simple. He may say that he is “out of love” however he is still trying really hard to win her back. Love is a very complex subject, yet Ed Sheeran uses metaphor to make it seem more